Week 40: The pandemic in Wyoming from Dec. 12-18
The first COVID-19 vaccines in Natrona County are issued on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, at the Casper-Natrona County Health Department. (Dan Cepeda, Oil City)
Wyoming healthcare providers this week administered the state’s first COVID-19 vaccines to frontline healthcare workers, offering a ray of hope in controlling the pandemic.
“We have an end in sight at this point, which was not true for many months during this pandemic,” State Health Officer Dr. Alexia Harrist said in a release announcing the first shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which began arriving Monday. “We have hope and a reminder that this situation is for now and not forever.”